Po·de·ti·um n.; pl. Podetia E. Podetiums Bot. A stalk which bears the fructification in some lichens, as in the so-called reindeer moss.
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podetium
n : an organ or body resembling a stalk; especially the
outgrowth of the thallus of certain lichens on which the
ascocarp is borne
[also: podetia (pl)]